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About MeAbout Me

INTRODUCTION

Mathew has been applying his craft to enterprise-level organizations as a UX Designer, where he provides evaluation and design recommendations to improve digital products, services, and customer experiences.

Working for national brand clients in a range of different sectors, he has created architecture and design for companies in Telecom; Health; Tourism; and the Financial Industry. He has built applications that have significantly increased sales, and process flows.

In all of these environments he has experienced a variety software delivery life-cycles, such as; Waterfall; Agile; Scrum methodology; Human-Centered Design, and Lean UX.

Improving his personal development by continuously learning about user-experience best practices, he also strives to achieve improvements on business processes, customer experiences, and providing a return on investment to the business.

He enjoys being an advocate for usability, from conceptual thinking to micro-interactions.

Work & Education

HISTORY

02/09/17 - 02/09/19 2017 - 2019

USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNER – BMO, BANK OF MONTREAL

User Experience Designer for Wealth Management and Small Business Banking products. Responsible for research, heuristic analysis, accessibility, user-testing, designs and prototypes. Projects include creating IPO Centre for InvestorLine, and a Small Business application that allows for multiple product selection, adjudication, and fulfillment.

USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNER – AVERSAN INC.

Lead UX Design Consultant for Cancer Care Ontario. Performed Heuristic Analysis, Workflow Evaluation, and Wireframe UI Design recommendations for the Wait Times Information System used in all hospitals across Ontario to track cancer patients through their access to care.

DIGITAL DESIGNER – ODDLY STUDIOS

Education

01/30/19 - 04/18/192019-2019

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND – AGILE LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES

Agile can often challenge project managers in the realm of leadership. Old styles of command-control are now a thing of the past, except for the most conservative organizations. But Agile takes self-empowerment to new levels and challenges traditional beliefs in what leadership means.

Motivating through empowerment to gain better decisions; Facilitating the creativity and inclusivity of a high-functioning team; Identifying and managing decision making biases; Negotiating conflicts across individuals, teams, and organizations; Ensuring success through delegation and powerful constraint-based metrics.

ENTERPRISE DESIGN THINKING PRACTITIONER – IBM

Enterprise Design Thinking is IBM’s approach to applying design thinking at the speed & scale a modern enterprise demands. It helps our teams not only form intent, but deliver outcomes – outcomes that advance the state of the art and improve the lives of the people they serve.

GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE – USER EXPERIENCE I + II

User Experience courses, comprising of the fundamentals of UX: Visual Design, Information Architecture, Usability Testing, Research/Strategy. The different tools and approaches used in the multiple facets of UX: Strategy, Scope, Structure, Skeleton, and Surface.

04/9/11 - 18/6/132011 - 2013

SENECA@YORK – DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS, Honours Diploma.

Content creation for the web, social media, marketing and advertising campaigns, new media, television graphics, and special effects and animation for the film, TV and advertising industries. Digital file management on multiple operating systems and software environments. Achieved President’s list honours for academic standing.

REVIEWS

TESTIMONIALS

Mathew helped me with my newly rebranded web site. He proved to be creative and highly skilled, and delivered high quality content. Overall he did a great job, and I recommend working with him.

Amos Larber

Game Developer - Frolic Labs

Mathew is a very conscientious professional paying a great deal of attention to detail. He applied his genuine dedication to each project he undertook. You can count on him to do what he says he will do with confidence. He was able to take on many different types of projects and was a real asset to the team. Working with Mathew is a real pleasure.

Ryan Payne

Company Principal - Lush Concepts

I worked with Mathew and I was very impressed with his UX skills. He is very detailed oriented and basis all of his design decisions on sound data driven, careful analysis and best UX practices. On top of that, he is very aware of the user and their journey, and doesn't compromise the best user experience for shortcuts.

Pascale Matar

Sr. Manager - CIBC

Mathew is an outstanding teammate and one of those guys you want on your team! He is detail oriented and consistently adds value to projects by recommending best practices and utilizes his knowledge on the latest UX/UI trends found in the marketplace. A valuable contributor and hard worker, you can definitely count on Mathew to come through in the clutch!